Inking apparatus for printing-presses.



No. 677,877. Patented July 9, l90l.

F. MEISEL. INKING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING PRESSES.

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FRANCIS MEISEL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE KIDDER PRESS COMPANY, OF WEST VIRGINIA.

INKING APPARATUS FOR PRlNTlNG-PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 677,877, dated July 9, 1901.

Original application tiled April 16, 1900, Serial No. 13,041. No. 28,277.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS MEISEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a newand useful Inking Apparatus for Printing-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an inking apparatus for printing-presses which has been es- IO pecially designed forinking fiat forms of type; and the especial object of this invention is to provide a simple, efficient, and reliable form of inking apparatus which may be adjusted to ink the forms of type with one or two colors of ink, as desired.

To this end this invention consists of the parts and combinations of parts as hereinafter described.

In a prior application for patent filed April .16, 1900, Serial No. 13,041, of which application the present case is a division, I have shown, described, and claimed a combined box-blank printing and scoring machine to which I have applied my inking apparatus in practice.

In the present application I have shown only such parts as may be necessary to an understanding of the inking apparatus itself.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is 0 a diagrammatic sectional view illustrating an inking apparatus constructed according to this invention, the operating connections for the printing-press bedand for the form-rollers being omitted for the sake of clearness; and

3 5 Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view illustrating a portion of the tracks or ways upon which the form-rollers may be supported.

Referring to the drawings and in detail, 12 designates a press-bed, which may be raised or operated by links 13 in anyordinary or well-known manner. Mounted on the pressbed 12 are flat forms of type F and F. For

inking the forms F and F two separate inkfountains B and R are employed. WVhen it is desired to employ one color of ink for inking one form and a different color for inking the second form, black ink, for example, may be placed in the ink-fountain l3 and red ink placed in the ink-fountain R. Cooperating Divided and this application filed August 28, 1900. Serial (No model.)

with the fountain-roller of the fountain B is a ductor for carrying ink to a distributingroller 61, which supplies ink to a drum 63 by means of a composition roller 62. By means of this arrangement black ink will normally be carried to the distributing-d rum 63. Mounted 5 5 at the side of the distributing-drum 63 is a second distributing-drum 66, which is normally disconnected with and not supplied with ink from the fountain B. Cooperating with the drums 63 and 66 are sets of form-rollers-64 60 and 65. The form-rollers 64 and 65 are dropped down into engagement with the distributing-drums 63 and 66, respectively, and are carried back and forth over the forms by any of the ordinary operating connections.

In practice the form-rollers 64 are supported upon a set of tracks or ways andthe formrollers 65 are supported on separate tracks or ways, as most clearly illustrated in Fig. 2. The tracks or ways, which support both sets of form-rollers, are preferably operated by any suitable form of connection for raising and lowering the same-such, for example, as the connection shown in United States Letters Patent No. 514,563, granted to myself and Herbert L. Chapin February 13, 1894- so that the form-rollers 64 and 65 will be raised and lowered at proper times, so that the form-rollers 64 will be brought into contact with the form F and the other set of form-rollers 65 will be brought into contact with the form F. Various other means can be devised, however, for shifting and for raising and lowering the form-rollers, and such connections form no part of my present inven tion and are not specifically claimed herein. At the opposite end of the press bed the ink from the fountain R will be taken by a ductor-roll 7 O to a distributing-roller 71,which conveys ink to a distributing-drum 73 by 0 means of a composition roller 72. A second distributing-drum 76 is arranged at the side of the distributing-drum 73 to cooperate with the form-rollers 64. By means of this construction it will be seen that red ink will be supplied to the form-roller 65, while black ink willbe supplied to the form-roller 64, the drums 66 and 76 simply serving to store supplies of ink and spread the same upon their respective form-rollers at opposite ends of the press.

Whenever it is desired to use ink of one color for both forms, both distributing-drums at each end of the press may be supplied with ink from the fountain adjacent theretot-hat is to say, by inserting a composition roller 660 in the position indicated in dotted lines the fountain B will be connected to supply ink to both drums 63 and 66, and in a similar manner by inserting a composition roller 760 the ink-fountain R will supply ink to both drums 73 and 76. By means of this construction it will therefore be seen that I have provided an extremelysimple and efficient form of inking apparatus, which may be adjusted to supply forms of type with ink of one color or with inks of two distinct colors, as desired.

I am aware that numerous changes may be made in the arrangement and proportions of my inking apparatus for printing-presses, and I do not Wish, therefore, to be limited to the form of construction herein shown and described; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, ir

1. In an inking apparatus for flat-bed printing-presses, the combination of ink-fountains at opposite ends of the press-bed, a pair of ink-drums located in proximity to each of said ink fountain, two sets of form -rollers, and distributing connections, comprising removable distributing-rolls arranged so that each ink-fountain may supply ink to one or both of its ink-drums, whereby the forms may be inked with one or two colors as desired, substantially as described.

3. In an inking apparatus for flat-bed printing-presses, the combination of an ink-fountain, a pair of ink-drums located in proximity to each ink-fountain, two sets of form-rollers, and distributing connections for carrying ink from the ink-fountain to one or both of the ink-drums, comprising a doctor roller, an inking-roller supplied therefrom, and two distributingrollers for transferring ink from said inking-roller to said ink-drums, one of said distributing-rollers being removable so that ink may be supplied from the fountain to but one of its ink-drums when desired, snbstantially as described.

4. In an inking apparatus for flat-bed printing-presses, the combination of ink-fountains located at opposite ends of the press, a pair ofink-drums located in proximity to each inkfountain, two sets of form-rollers, and distributing connections cooperating with each ink-drum, and comprising a ductor-roller, an inking-roller supplied therefrom, distributing-rollers for transferring ink from the inking-roller to the ink-drums, one of said distribu ting-rollers being removable so that each fountain may supply ink to one or both of its ink-drums as desired, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS MEISEL. Witnesses:

E. G. WHITNEY, E. W. DEAN. 

